What is the funniest thing you saw happen while on vacation?

We rented a cottage in Jamaica, went out for dinner and forgot to leave a light on. Came home to find a couple of those HUGE cucarachas in the middle of the livingroom, so brave macho boyfriend decided to evict them. Except he had no idea that they can fly -- when one of them took off after him, the look on his face was as if a mouse had flown at him -- absolutely priceless. In the ensuing scuffle, his shoes ended up outside, though the bug was inside. I thought I was gong to burst something from laughing.

Suzy, I read this story somewhere else. I laughed almost as much this time as I did the last time I read it. You have to give all the other details tho, if I remeber right the story gets funnier as it goes along!

Wel, I didn't want to complicate things.

But also involved were these scary-looking stray dogs that hung around the neighborhood, which my BF was even more afraid of than the flying cockroach so he was afraid to flee the cottage to get away from the scary bugs. The door kept opening and closing, he was afraid of dogs or outdoor bugs coming in. My daughter and I just weren't surprised or afraid, so we were laughing hysterically and the harder we laughed the more upset he got (of course).

I can't remember any other particulars, perhaps I've posted about this before or perhaps someone else has a similar story -- I'm sure there are plenty of cockroaches and sissy suburbanites to go around!

I saw two elderly oriental woman climbing down from Diamond Head in wooden high heel shoes.

Barb, I saw the same thing just last month! Although it was the young Japanese women that wore high heels up Diamond Head. Anything for fashion, I suppose.

At the Prater in Vienna. The carousels have REAL horses, not wooden ones. The best was when one horse decided he was tired and just laid down. All the other horses just carefully picked their way around him while the child on board looked completely baffled.

Unfortunately that's a bit grisly, rather than funny. Horses don't lie down when they're tired; they sleep standing up. This horse was more likely dying than taking a nap.

There is a place called "Marine World" north of San Francisco. While my children took an elephant ride I was watching 3 employees helping a very fat woman up the elephant to take a ride.

I've always hated the harnessed horses going round and round all day while little kids rode them. And they talk about cruelty swimming with dolphins!

Cindy> just for the record, horses do in fact lay down to rest often. But you would know that if you were raised on a farm *W*

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Follow up to the Vienna Carousel post: the horses, in fact, were ponies and they looked fine, fat, and healthy. The kids were petting them and talking to them, and feeding them some bits of veggies from a bucket by the ticket booth. We spoke with the person who runs the ride and he advised that the pony in question has this habit of just lying down whenever he wants a certain spot on his neck scratched, pretty comical. He will accept the scraps of veggies, but won't move until you assist with the itch. And Steve, thank you. Yes, horses do lie down. I would never laugh at a dying horse!

I'll bet Cindy's just a blast at parties.

Sorry if I was reacting on the basis of wrong information. I had actually been told that by several different people who, I thought, knew what they were talking about. I guess you're nobody if you haven't been flamed on this website - anyway I suppose I deserved it. My apologies.

Hey Cindy! It's okay. I'm an animal lover and probably would have reacted the same way if I had the wrong info. No one takes the 'flames' too seriously. It is just a travel board. I mean, my gosh, if 10 people can take the time to bash someone over their pick of a hamburger joint, you have to just take it from where it comes. When I get a scanner I will post the photos of the carousel on the fodorites photos page so you might want to check for them in a few weeks. By the way, the Prater is great (for anyone interested in going to Vienna). Like Central Park with an amusement park attached. And unlike the USA, bungi jumping at amusement parks is legal!

This became funny after the trip was over...

We were in Venice, staying on the mainland. We were going out to dinner and a few drinks, and decided to leave the windows open. 4 hours later we returned to our room quite drunk. We open the door and for some reason everything looked hazy. I thought it was a strange side-effect of sambuca, so we went into the room. A friend of mind observed that it wasn't haze, that it was more like little dots... it took us five minutes to realize that the room was completely full of mosquitoes! We had left the window open and every single light on!

We went to the front desk, and explained our situation. They had a hard time believing us, being that we were really quite drunk. Someone from the hotel went with us to the room, and started shouting at us in something that resambled very INproper Italian. He got a can of raid, and emptied it in the room, closed the door, and asked us to wait for five minutes.

We went back in, and the ceiling and walls were clean again. The floor, however, was a sea of dead mosquitoes.

The next day (with a killer hangover), we really wanted to know how many mosquitoes were in the room. We collected them in a waste basket. When we finished, we had a little more than one inch of mosquitoes in that wastebasket...

In fifth grade (many years ago), I went on a field trip to Washington, D.C. My class and I were walking down the sidewalk to one of the many museums and we had the pleasure of encountering a rather horny couple of pigeons who were doing the deed in the middle of the sidewalk. The hot dog vendor thought it was as funny as we did. Of course, we were only 10 and obviously easily entertained. I need to get out more.

On a cruise in Cozumel last year, we saw many who were really boozing it up and Carlos and Charlie's.We were pulling away from the dock when we saw several running down the pier screaming and waving for the ship to come back. Right, guys! LOL- I guess they had all their cash, clothes, ID, etc on the ship. I still wonder what happened to them, LOL. Maybe others would have cried, but I was laughing my ass off.

Ellen, (or anyone) how do you access fodorites photo page?